Sunny Leone was born in Canada to an Indian Sikh family.
58 Facts About Sunny Leone
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Sunny Leone was named Penthouse Pet of the Year in 2003, was a contract performer for Vivid Entertainment, and was named by Maxim as one of the 12 top porn stars in 2010.
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Sunny Leone has played roles in independent mainstream events, films, and television series.
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Sunny Leone had her first kiss at 11, lost her virginity at 16 with a basketball player, and discovered her bisexuality at 18.
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When picking a name for her adult career, Leone has stated that Sunny is her real name and that Leone was picked by Bob Guccione, former owner of Penthouse magazine.
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That same year, Sunny Leone signed a three-year contract with Vivid Entertainment with which she transitioned into hardcore pornography, stating that she would only do lesbian scenes.
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Sunny Leone followed this with Sunny Loves Cher, which featured her first on-screen squirting, and The Female Gardner co-starring Mikayla Mendez and Daisy Marie.
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Sunny Leone followed up her first boy-girl title with The Other Side of Sunny in October 2008, which would be the last time she would perform with Erikson.
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In January 2008, Sunny Leone revealed that she was no longer exclusive to Erikson, and had done scenes with other actors, including Tommy Gunn, Charles Dera, James Deen and Voodoo.
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Sunny Leone won the "Web Babe of the Year" at the 2008 Xbiz Awards.
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Sunny Leone indicated in an April 2012 interview that 80 per cent of the traffic on her website, and 60 per cent of her revenue comes from India.
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Sunny Leone was part of the Vivid Comedy Tour, and has modelled for the Vivid Footwear collection.
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Sunny Leone is paired with Gab Ekoe, one of the Team Control riders.
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Sunny Leone indicated that she plans to launch her own line of lingerie and other Sunny-branded products including a diamond jewellery line.
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Sunny Leone was voted number 13 on Genesis magazine's "Top 100 Porn stars" list, number 34 on Desiclubs.
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Sunny Leone was voted number 82 in the Top 99 Women for 2012 in AskMen.
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Sunny Leone's first mainstream appearance was in 2005, when she was a red carpet reporter for the MTV Awards on MTV India.
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Sunny Leone has had a cameo in the film The Girl Next Door, performed in Ja Rule's video "Livin' It Up", and a video for Kidd Skilly.
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Sunny Leone was a contestant in the second season of the Fox reality show My Bare Lady 2: Open for Business, in which a group of adult actresses were given classes and training on how to pitch investment ideas and competed for success in the business world.
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Sunny Leone indicated that for the right price she would seriously consider a career in Bollywood.
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Sunny Leone was courted by Indian directors in the past but felt uncomfortable with the roles that she would have played.
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In 2008, Sunny Leone announced that she would be starring in a mainstream action adventure movie titled Pirates Blood, which was shot in Oman.
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Sunny Leone landed a role in Middle Men, producer Chris Mallick's indie feature about the birth of the online porn industry set for wide theatrical release in 2009.
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Sunny Leone appeared in the 2010 film The Virginity Hit playing a version of herself, where she is hired to take the virginity of the lead character.
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Sunny Leone has made appearances at events such as the 2002 SEMA International Auto Salon, the 2002 Extreme Autofest Pomona and the 2006 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas.
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Sunny Leone served as hostess at events in clubs like the Mansion in Miami and the Highlands in Hollywood.
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Sunny Leone has been featured in mainstream publications like FHM, Front and Jane magazine.
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Sunny Leone is among the Penthouse Pets who appears in the 2007 video game Pocket Pool, and was featured in a coffee table book titled Naked Ambition: An R Rated Look at an X Rated Industry by Michael Grecco.
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Sunny Leone accepted it, which resulted in Pooja Bhatt's production house, Fish Eye Network and Leone's agent discussing the movie further.
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Sunny Leone entered Bollywood in 2012 with the film Jism 2 to weak critical reception but was commercially successful.
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Sunny Leone signed her second Bollywood film, Ragini MMS 2, sequel to Ekta Kapoor's crossover horror movie Ragini MMS.
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Sunny Leone featured in an item number in the Sanjay Gupta and Ekta Kapoor's 2013 film Shootout at Wadala.
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Sunny Leone further started filming for Kaizad Gustad's Jackpot in which she plays a femme fatale.
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Sunny Leone's performance received all round praise with critic Mohar Basu calling her work a "revelation".
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Critic Taran Adarsh noted that Sunny Leone, "carries off her character with supreme confidence".
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Sunny Leone next appeared in the item number Pink Lips for the film Hate Story 2.
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Sunny Leone made her acting debut in the Telugu film industry by appearing in a cameo in Current Theega opposite Manchu Manoj and Rakul Preet Singh where she played a school teacher.
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Sunny Leone then appeared in item song Sesamma Bagilu Tegiyamma in Kannada film DK, which marked her debut in Kannada film industry.
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Sunny Leone essayed the role of a film star opposite Ram Kapoor, Evelyn Sharma and Navdeep Chabbra.
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Sunny Leone did her second Kannada song "Kamakshi" from the film Luv U Alia.
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Sunny Leone's performance was widely praised but the film met with negative reviews and flopped.
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Sunny Leone appeared in song "Tu Zaroorat Nahi Tu Zaroori Hai" with Sharman Joshi in Fuddu and item song "Choli Blockbuster" for the film Dongri Ka Raja.
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Sunny Leone then appeared in song "Piya More" with Emraan Hashmi in Milan Luthria's Baadshaho.
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Sunny Leone made her Marathi and Bengali film debuts the same month with songs "Kuth Kuth Jayacha Honeymoon La" in Vishal Devrukhkar's Boyz and "Chaap Nishna" in Swapan Saha's Shrestha Bangali.
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Sunny Leone then appeared in song "Deo Deo" for Rajasekhar's Telugu film PSV Garuda Vega Her last appearance was her mainstream film Tera Intezaar along Arbaaz Khan directed by Rajeev Walia.
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Sunny Leone is stars in Veeramadevi, a Tamil period war film directed by V C Vadivudaiyan.
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In 2004, Leone was part of No More Bush Girls, in which she and several other popular adult actresses shaved off their pubic hair in protest of the George W Bush presidency.
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Sunny Leone indicated that Barack Obama would be her choice in the 2008 US presidential election, primarily because she felt he was more business-friendly to the adult industry than his opponent John McCain.
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Sunny Leone released a public service announcement on behalf of the ASACP, urging adult website webmasters to protect their sites from children by having an RTA label on it.
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In 2013, Sunny Leone posed for a PETA ad campaign, encouraging dog and cat owners to have their pets spayed and neutered.
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In June 2006, Sunny Leone became an American citizen, but stated she planned to remain a dual citizen of Canada.
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Sunny Leone applied for it prior to filming Jism 2.
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Sunny Leone has a strong interest in health and fitness and has been featured in several mainstream fitness publications.
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Sunny Leone had dated Indian-Canadian stand-up comedian Russell Peters up until they broke up in 2007.
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Sunny Leone was then dating Matt Erikson, a vice-president of marketing at Playboy Enterprises.
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Sunny Leone mentioned in an interview at the start of 2011 that she was married to Daniel Weber, an American actor, producer, and entrepreneur.
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On March 4,2018, Sunny Leone and her husband announced the birth of their twin boys, born through surrogacy.
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Sunny Leone stated that the actress was promoting pornography, which is illegal in India, and that this would harm Indian culture and its moral fabric.